Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Alan Dove, and LJ Tan On Episode 103 of the podcast This Week in Virology, Vincent and Alan discuss influenza vaccines with LJ Tan of the American Medical Association. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV103.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download TWiV #103 (56 MB .mp3, 77 minutes) ...

This week€™s addition to the virology toolbox was written by Chris Upton Generating multiple sequence alignments (MSA) is one of the most commonly used bioinformatics techniques. The sequences to be compared can be DNA (promoters, genes, genomes) or proteins. Note that the length and number of sequences to be aligned ...

The need to re-formulate the influenza virus vaccine in response to viral antigenic drift and shift makes for complex logistics of vaccine production and administration. Surveillance programs must be conducted each year to identify strains that are likely to predominate and cause disease. Wouldn€™t it be simpler if a single ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello, Andrew Baker, Karl-Klaus Conzelmann, Peter Palese, and Katharina Eisenächer Episode #102 of the podcast This Week in Virology is a conversation about the RNA sensor RIG-I, adenovirus gene therapy, a universal influenza vaccine, and rabies virus, recorded in Munich, Germany at the SFB455 symposium 'Viral offense and immune defense€™. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twiv/TWiV102.mp3"] ...

Hosts: Vincent Racaniello and Dickson Despommier On episode 17 of the podcast This Week in Parasitism, Vincent and Dickson continue their discussion of protozoan parasites that cause diarrhea with a review of amebic dysentery caused by Entamoeba histolytica. [powerpress url="http://traffic.libsyn.com/twip/TWiP017.mp3"] Click the arrow above to play, or right-click to download ...